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Tinutuan or bubur manado or manadonese porridge is a rice porridge mixed with various vegetables such as spinach, kangkung, corn, pumpkin and sweet potato or cassava. Tinutuan is from Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Some people also said that it is from Minahasa, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Etimology of the word tinutuan is unknown. Also, the exact time when tinutuan found is still unclear. Someone said it was popular since 1970, while another said that it was since 1981. Local government of Manado made tinutuan as icon of the Manado city. Tinutuan is usually served as breakfast, with many additional foods, such as salted fish, sambal, fried onion, as it is seen on the picture. At its origin place, Manado, tinutuan usually served with smoked skipjack tuna, shrimp paste or smoked garfish sambal, or meatball.